A plan to move Conejo Valley High School to Waverly, the Thousand Oaks campus that now houses its adult education program, has drawn the ire of some residents and teachers who say it could potentially squeeze out existing programs and students on the campus.

Community members brought their concerns to one of two informational meetings held Monday at the Conejo Valley Unified School District Office about the creation of the new Conejo Valley Learning Center and the move of current programs at Waverly, which could happen as early as January.

Victor Hayek, the district’s superintendent of business services, said the meeting was to get feedback from the community before making final plans about what programs would be moved from the adult school on Old Farm Road in the Waverly Heights neighborhood of Thousand Oaks.

Some of the programs could be moved to other campuses that have room.

Hayek said that more than 10 years ago, a plan was created to build a facility that would be a “versatile, flexible, multipurpose learning center,” with the goal of incorporating Conejo Valley High School, Century Academy and a future career technical educational facility all in one facility.

Century Academy is where students learn online and in class.

The original plan was to build the facility on a large empty plot of land next to the school district office, but it became unfeasible due to costs and other factors.

In May, the district board considered options for the Learning Center, and an ad-hoc committee in June came back with a recommendation.

Hayek, who served on the committee, said that in the end, the Waverly campus was the only school district site that was able to house all three facilities.

“The committee did note that we did have concerns that had to be addressed in the community, as well as relocation with some of the adult education programs,” Hayek said.

In addition to the adult education programs, the Waverly campus currently houses Century Academy, and the district’s independent study program, in addition to space leased to United Cerebral Palsy for a special education post-secondary program.

CVHS has 117 students enrolled in the continuation school this year.

The district needs to find a new home for CVHS because it has sold the Newbury Park campus to a developer and is leasing the site for about $25,000 a month.

Hayek said it is not known what adult education programs will be moved from Waverly, and there is currently discussions going on about the matter with principals of the schools, park and city officials.

Some of the speakers said they had concerns about problems that the continuation school students would bring to their neighborhood.

Sylvia Navarro, a resident, said she didn’t appreciate the school district putting two high schools together in the neighborhood.

Donna Dearborn, an ESL teacher in the adult school program, said she didn’t want to see the adult school program moved from its current location.

“If there is ever a gem in the community, it’s adult school as it is now. Not to be dispersed and blown to the wind, with who knows what our fate will be, especially for the ESL program,” Dearborn said.

Betty Empol, the coordinator for the English as a Second Language program at the adult school, said the ESL program needs to be kept in one place to keep the program funded.

An ESL student said she didn’t want to see the program spread out to other locations.

Another teacher at the school said her son is the product of a continuation school education, and he has gone on to a university and a successful career.

However, she said that as a teacher at the school, she believes the adult school serves a larger population than the continuation school and should be kept intact and not moved to satellite locations.